August 20, Big M area

[Quillback]

Dutch and I were out at dawn, cool air temps and a nice full moon.

We had a good crank bait bite last time we were at Cap Fair so we decided to start the day cranking.  Pretty quickly we put 4 in the boat on a small square bill, three 12-13" spots and a keeper smallmouth.  After that, things went south, despite quite a bit of effort and a lot of bank running, we never caught anything else on cranks except a couple of perch and a couple of really dinky bass.

We went to the jigs and c-rig craw and scraped out another half dozen bass, a couple of them were keeper smalls.  

We mostly fished gravelly, rocky banks that were not too steep and I don't recall any of our fish being deeper than 10 feet or so.

Off the water at 1100.

I forgot to note the water temp.  It's August, probably in the low to mid 80's.

 

 

[Dutch]

The weather was nice and boat traffic was minimal as was my catching.  Thanks for the invite.  Let’s try Cape again Monday.

[Quillback]

I will pencil in Monday.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I threw everything Saturday morning and just decided to throw my favorite crank to cover water.   They about yanked it out of my hand.  Only got to fish it about an hour before I had to leave.   But caught 8 in that hour.  

[Johnsfolly]

2 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I threw everything Saturday morning and just decided to throw my favorite crank to cover water.   They about yanked it out of my hand.  Only got to fish sit about an hour before I had to leave.   But caught 8 in that hour.  

Any photos?😆

[snagged in outlet 3]

3 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Any photos?😆

Nope.  I had such a poor first 3 hours by the time I started catching them, and was essentially working back to the ramp, I didn’t want to stop and take any.  Unusual, I know.  😆. Sorry.